AWARDS
2022 Center for Civic Engagement Fellow (ISU), focus on digital literacy.
Outstanding University Teaching Award (Tier I) winner, Spring 2020.
“RISE” award for empathy in teaching during a pandemic, ISU Provost award, December 2020.
Summer Faculty Fellow (2019), $5,000 (ISU)
Janice Witherspoon Neuleib Award for Outstanding Scholarly Achievement in the College of Arts & Sciences (2016, fall). $500.
McCormick Fellow for Civic Engagement Pedagogy, summer 2012, $4000.
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning School Award for Civic Engagement, 2008-2009, $10,000.
FOCUS Fellow for developing instructional teaching materials on civic engagement, Summer 2008.
Recognized as “Outstanding Faculty” for Diversity by the ISU Diversity Advocacy Center, April 2006.
GRANTS
Fulbright Specialist Grant, for lectures and presentations in public speaking, persuasion, political communication and political engagement with the U.S. Embassy, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (2018, February)
Fulbright Specialist Grant, for graduate teaching in Gramsci & Cultural Studies as well as curriculum development and international exchange possibilities between the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) and ISU (2015, summer).
Fulbright Grant, for research in international and intercultural relations in Sri Lanka, 1993.
International Travel Grant, $750, ISU College of Arts & Sciences, for travel to the Democracy and Disinformation in the Era of Trump conference, University of Clinton, Dublin Ireland (2018, December)
Internationalizing the Curriculum of a Major grant (fall, 2017), from the Office of International Studies and Programs (ISU). Joseph Zompetti and Lance Lippert, Co-PIs ($10,000)
Charles Koch Foundation Research Grant, National Institute for Civil Discourse, $1500 for research on the rhetorical incivility of President Trump’s tweets (2018, spring).
CTLT (Center for Teaching, Learning & Technology) supplemental travel grant, $250, Fall 2011.
CTLT supplemental travel grant, $250, Spring 2011.
CTLT supplemental international travel grant, $300, Summer 2008.
CAS (College of Arts & Sciences) supplemental international travel grant, $250, Summer 2008.
Urban TQE (Teacher Quality Enhancement) grant, $2500, Summer 2006.
New Faculty Initiative Grant: Research for a paper on Cesar Chavez’s Use of Religious Symbols, $2500, Summer 2004.